I understood that mandatory Javascript is unacceptable for accessibility
reasons. afaik the site is currently fully useable without Javascript
except for a few bells and whistles. This had better not change.
Brian
On 15/03/2014 05:28, Eggert, Lars wrote:
Hi,
I think the applets thing is a red herring.
The more interesting question is whether we should assume Javascript support
in browsers. (Your FreeBSD box browser probably had that, hence Etherpad
works.)
I would personally say "yes" here, but I am pretty sure there will be some
folks out there using lynx...
Lars
On 2014-3-14, at 16:23, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
7.d.vii: "For pages that require the use of applets, a link to the page
where the user can obtain the plug-ins will be provided.": Do we really
want/need to go that far? What about just saying "no use of
applets/plugins"?
Yes, please. Many of us use neither Windows nor Mac nor Android nor
iOS, which means that applets rarely work. Anything useful you can do
with an applet you can do, perhaps slightly slower, by sending
requests back to the host.
Also, you can do a lot of useful stuff with no applets at all.
Etherpad works fine on my FreeBSD box, for example, where I've used it
to take notes for many WG sessions.
R's,
John